My daughters LOVE to bake. They are constantly asking if they can bake cookies, cakes, pies, you name it. They are the reason I buy baking supplies and wet wipes in large quantities! Lol. Last week, our neighbor gifted us with a shoebox full of freshly picked blueberries. The blueberries were some of the best I have ever had, part of that was because they were straight off the plant and the other part was because I didn't have to sit in the sun picking them myself. Savannah (11 years old) asked Read more [...]

Thank you to AllerEase for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. Did you know that "a typical mattress can have 100,000 to 10 million dust mites lurking inside!" Gross! How about the fact that "67% percent of Americans report due to a lack of sleep their health status is either “poor” or “only fair.” Sad, right? Not getting a good night sleep can negatively affect us in so many ways. AllerEase, the leading brand of allergen barrier bedding, Read more [...]

Thank you to Pentel for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. Many of you may think on mechanical pencils when you hear the name Pentel. Did you know that in addition to their popular mechanical pencils, Pentel also offers customers, pens, markers, erasers, and other office supplies? They do! Check them out. Pentel recently releases a Collector's Edition box of POP Gel Pens. My daughters and I were able to get to try these new colorful pens. Pentel's Read more [...]

Thank you to Arbonne for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. For the past several weeks, I have been using products from the Arbonne RE9 Advanced Skin Care Line. For my review, I was sent the NEW! RE9 Advanced Age-Defying Neck Cream, NEW! RE9 Advanced Retexturizing Serum in Lotion, and the NEW! RE9 Advanced Firming Body Cream. RE9 Advanced Age-Defying Neck Cream has been crafted to help improve the texture of your skin on your neck Read more [...]

Thank you to SwimWays for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. Yesterday, was the hottest day of the year, here in Oregon.  By 9:00 am it was already 76°. In the afternoon, the temperature soared to 93°. It was hot and it made for a great day to play in our backyard swimming pool. This is the second year we have had the swimming pool. When we bought the pool, we also purchased a couple of swimming toys. The girls had a lot of fun with them Read more [...]

Thank you to Sunglass Warehouse for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. I have an obsession with sunglasses. I wear them all the time! I like to joke that being an Oregonian has made my eyes sensitive to the sun because we only have it for a few months out of the year. Lol. Anyways, because I wear my sunglasses all the time, I lose them and break them quite often. This really makes it hard for me to justify spending a lot of money on them. Instead, Read more [...]

Thank you to Jane Iredale for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. In an attempt to get out of a stay-at-home-mom rut, I vowed to get dressed-up, do my hair, and apply make-up at least 5 days a week. Getting ready, even when I don't have anywhere to go, helps me feel better. When I am dressed-up I feel as though I am more prepared to take on the day and its activities. It may sound silly to some but, for me, it works. When I was asked to review Read more [...]

Thank you to Mythical Slyme for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. Oh, boy, do I have a fun review for you today! I would like to introduce you to Mythical Slyme. Mythical Slyme knows kids love unicorns and potty humor. It is with that knowledge that they set out to create a fun line of tactile compound, that kids would enjoy playing with. Mythical Slyme provides hours of sensory play and encourages the development of fine motor skills and coordination. Unlike Read more [...]

Thank you to Pereg Natural Foods for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. I recently learned about a company called Pereg Natural Foods. Pereg offers customers high-quality spices and grains. They began as a small business in an open-air market with a few choice products. Today they offer more than 60 variety of spices, spice blends, flavored grain mixes, gluten-free pasta, couscous, rice, spreads, cereals and more. Everything Pereg Natural Read more [...]

Thank you to ONE Brands for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. With summer break around the corner, I have begun filling my house with healthy snacks. I don't know about you but, when my kids are home on summer break it seems as though they are constantly asking for snacks. I try to make sure I have an assortment of healthy items for them to choose from. While searching the internet for high-protein/low-sugar snacks, I found ONE Brands Read more [...]